I was working this morning, getting ready to go to the conference next week in Seattle. Around 11:00am, I decided it was time to take a break, so I packed up the wife and three year old daughter and headed over to MOMA (Museum of Modern Art, New York City). What a great afternoon!
I don’t [...]

The question of the day comes from Yongwei Xing in Shanghai:
I searched on the Internet and only found a web part that can be used to show a document in a SilverLight. But if I write a SilverLight by myself, I want to show my SilverLight in MOSS. What should I do? Do you have such [...]

I had a little email correspondance with Suzanne to solve a permission issue that I thought might be of interest. Here’s the entire exchange, in sequence.
Suzanne wrote: I understand the workflow process, but I need assistance on the best way to manage permissions associated with workfows. Do you need to set up special permission levels [...]

The question of the day comes from Toby in the UK:
Does anyone know how to get it so I can have a Lookup field that uses a calculated field in another table? My requirements is to create a concatenated name from first name and last name in Contacts (not the Full name that it comes [...]

The question of the day comes from Chris:
Do you know of a way users can save searches as links?
Chris – The basic search is a ‘get’ in the URL, so setup the search, click the search button and then copy the URL to use as the href in the link. You can also have them [...]

I was looking through some of the questions on the SharePointU forums and came across a question about multiple Gantt views against a single set of data. It seemed like a quick solution to demo, so I’ve inserted a screencast below. The Project Task list is used to setup the basic Widget creation process. Here’s [...]

The question of the day comes from Torbjorn:
We want to able to track a printed document back to Sharepoint with help of the SharePoint generated id#.

A document in Sharepoint gets some kind of id# when it is created (it is the same even after new versions are added).
Everytime the document is printed out the id# [...]

One of the interesting features in the major MS Word Applications is the ability to define where the “Save” or “Save As…” button points upon initially saving a file. By default, it usually points to “My Documents“. If you are using SharePoint a lot, it will probably be useful to reset that default to a [...]

The question of the day comes from Zeynep in California:

I’m currently setting up a sub-site and loading in files.  I created a Document Library and now I would like to revise the name of the Document Library.  How do I do that? I poked around a bit and could not figure this out.

One odd thing [...]

The question of the day comes from Frank in Michigan:
I’m seeing something that’s a bit off on a global team calendar.  I created a view named “Condensed” to be displayed [through a web part] on the front page.  Everything looks exactly like I want it to except the items aren’t sorted in date order as they [...]